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<pre>public class <span class="strong">TypeUtils</span>
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<div class="block"><p> Utility methods focusing on type inspection, particularly with regard to
 generics. </p></div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static boolean</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#containsTypeVariables(java.lang.reflect.Type)">containsTypeVariables</a></strong>(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">Type</a>&nbsp;type)</code>
<div class="block">Learn, recursively, whether any of the type parameters associated with <code>type</code> are bound to variables.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util">Map</a>&lt;<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">TypeVariable</a>&lt;?&gt;,<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">Type</a>&gt;</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#determineTypeArguments(java.lang.Class, java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType)">determineTypeArguments</a></strong>(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Class</a>&lt;?&gt;&nbsp;cls,
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static boolean</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#equals(java.lang.reflect.Type, java.lang.reflect.Type)">equals</a></strong>(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">Type</a>&nbsp;t1,
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<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#getTypeArguments(java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType)">getTypeArguments</a></strong>(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">ParameterizedType</a>&nbsp;type)</code>
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 including owner hierarchy arguments such as
 <code>Outer&lt;K,V&gt;.Inner&lt;T&gt;.DeepInner&lt;E&gt;</code> .</div>
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                <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Class</a>&lt;?&gt;&nbsp;toClass)</code>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static boolean</code></td>
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<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#isInstance(java.lang.Object, java.lang.reflect.Type)">isInstance</a></strong>(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Object</a>&nbsp;value,
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<div class="block">A wildcard instance matching <code>?</code>.</div>
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<div class="block"><p><code>TypeUtils</code> instances should NOT be constructed in standard
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 <code>TypeUtils.isAssignable(cls, toClass)</code>.</p> <p>This
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                   <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">Type</a>&nbsp;toType)</pre>
<div class="block"><p>Checks if the subject type may be implicitly cast to the target type
 following the Java generics rules. If both types are <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Class</code></a>
 objects, the method returns the result of
 <a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/ClassUtils.html#isAssignable(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Class)"><code>ClassUtils.isAssignable(Class, Class)</code></a>.</p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - the subject type to be assigned to the target type</dd><dd><code>toType</code> - the target type</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><code>true</code> if <code>type</code> is assignable to <code>toType</code>.</dd></dl>
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<div class="block"><p>Retrieves all the type arguments for this parameterized type
 including owner hierarchy arguments such as
 <code>Outer&lt;K,V&gt;.Inner&lt;T&gt;.DeepInner&lt;E&gt;</code> .
 The arguments are returned in a
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Map</code></a> specifying the argument type for each <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>TypeVariable</code></a>.
 </p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - specifies the subject parameterized type from which to
             harvest the parameters.</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>a <code>Map</code> of the type arguments to their respective type
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<div class="block"><p>Gets the type arguments of a class/interface based on a subtype. For
 instance, this method will determine that both of the parameters for the
 interface <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Map</code></a> are <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Object</code></a> for the subtype
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Properties</code></a> even though the subtype does not
 directly implement the <code>Map</code> interface.</p>
 <p>This method returns <code>null</code> if <code>type</code> is not assignable to
 <code>toClass</code>. It returns an empty map if none of the classes or
 interfaces in its inheritance hierarchy specify any type arguments.</p>
 <p>A side effect of this method is that it also retrieves the type
 arguments for the classes and interfaces that are part of the hierarchy
 between <code>type</code> and <code>toClass</code>. So with the above
 example, this method will also determine that the type arguments for
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Hashtable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Hashtable</code></a> are also both <code>Object</code>.
 In cases where the interface specified by <code>toClass</code> is
 (indirectly) implemented more than once (e.g. where <code>toClass</code>
 specifies the interface <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Iterable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Iterable</code></a> and
 <code>type</code> specifies a parameterized type that implements both
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Set.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Set</code></a> and <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Collection</code></a>),
 this method will look at the inheritance hierarchy of only one of the
 implementations/subclasses; the first interface encountered that isn't a
 subinterface to one of the others in the <code>type</code> to
 <code>toClass</code> hierarchy.</p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - the type from which to determine the type parameters of
 <code>toClass</code></dd><dd><code>toClass</code> - the class whose type parameters are to be determined based
 on the subtype <code>type</code></dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>a <code>Map</code> of the type assignments for the type variables in
 each type in the inheritance hierarchy from <code>type</code> to
 <code>toClass</code> inclusive.</dd></dl>
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<div class="block"><p>Tries to determine the type arguments of a class/interface based on a
 super parameterized type's type arguments. This method is the inverse of
 <a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#getTypeArguments(java.lang.reflect.Type, java.lang.Class)"><code>getTypeArguments(Type, Class)</code></a> which gets a class/interface's
 type arguments based on a subtype. It is far more limited in determining
 the type arguments for the subject class's type variables in that it can
 only determine those parameters that map from the subject <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Class</code></a>
 object to the supertype.</p> <p>Example: <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/TreeSet.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>TreeSet</code></a> sets its parameter as the parameter for
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/NavigableSet.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>NavigableSet</code></a>, which in turn sets the
 parameter of <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/SortedSet.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>SortedSet</code></a>, which in turn sets the
 parameter of <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Set.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Set</code></a>, which in turn sets the parameter of
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Collection</code></a>, which in turn sets the parameter of
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Iterable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Iterable</code></a>. Since <code>TreeSet</code>'s parameter maps
 (indirectly) to <code>Iterable</code>'s parameter, it will be able to
 determine that based on the super type <code>Iterable&lt;? extends
 Map&lt;Integer, ? extends Collection&lt;?&gt;&gt;&gt;</code>, the parameter of
 <code>TreeSet</code> is <code>? extends Map&lt;Integer, ? extends
 Collection&lt;?&gt;&gt;</code>.</p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>cls</code> - the class whose type parameters are to be determined, not <code>null</code></dd><dd><code>superType</code> - the super type from which <code>cls</code>'s type
 arguments are to be determined, not <code>null</code></dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>a <code>Map</code> of the type assignments that could be determined
 for the type variables in each type in the inheritance hierarchy from
 <code>type</code> to <code>toClass</code> inclusive.</dd></dl>
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<div class="block"><p>Checks if the given value can be assigned to the target type
 following the Java generics rules.</p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>value</code> - the value to be checked</dd><dd><code>type</code> - the target type</dd>
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<div class="block"><p>This method strips out the redundant upper bound types in type
 variable types and wildcard types (or it would with wildcard types if
 multiple upper bounds were allowed).</p> <p>Example, with the variable
 type declaration:

 <pre>&lt;K extends java.util.Collection&lt;String&gt; &amp;
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 <p>
 since <code>List</code> is a subinterface of <code>Collection</code>,
 this method will return the bounds as if the declaration had been:
 </p>

 <pre>&lt;K extends java.util.List&lt;String&gt;&gt;</pre></div>
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 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/WildcardType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>WildcardType</code></a> or <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>TypeVariable</code></a>, not <code>null</code>.</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>an array containing the values from <code>bounds</code> minus the
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 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true#getBounds()" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>TypeVariable.getBounds()</code></a> returns an empty array. Otherwise, it
 returns the result of <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true#getBounds()" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>TypeVariable.getBounds()</code></a> passed into
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 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/WildcardType.html?is-external=true#getUpperBounds()" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>WildcardType.getUpperBounds()</code></a> returns an empty array. Otherwise,
 it returns the result of <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/WildcardType.html?is-external=true#getUpperBounds()" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>WildcardType.getUpperBounds()</code></a>
 passed into <a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/TypeUtils.html#normalizeUpperBounds(java.lang.reflect.Type[])"><code>normalizeUpperBounds(java.lang.reflect.Type[])</code></a>.</p></div>
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<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>a non-empty array containing the lower bounds of the wildcard
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 mapped type variables. When a type parameter extends another (such as
 <code>&lt;T, S extends T&gt;</code>), uses another as a type parameter (such as
 <code>&lt;T, S extends Comparable&gt;&gt;</code>), or otherwise depends on
 another type variable to be specified, the dependencies must be included
 in <code>typeVarAssigns</code>.</p></div>
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 type variables, not <code>null</code>.</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>whether or not the types can be assigned to their respective type
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 with <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/TypeVariable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>TypeVariable</code></a>s and <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/GenericArrayType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>GenericArrayType</code></a>s, or when you do
 not know the runtime type of <code>type</code>: if you know you have a
 <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Class</code></a> instance, it is already raw; if you know you have a
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<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>the resolved <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><code>Class</code></a> object or <code>null</code> if
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<div class="block">Learn whether the specified type denotes an array type.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - the type to be checked</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><code>true</code> if <code>type</code> is an array class or a <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/GenericArrayType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>GenericArrayType</code></a>.</dd></dl>
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<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>component type or null if type is not an array type</dd></dl>
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<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - the type to check for type variables</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>boolean</dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<div class="block">Create a parameterized type instance.</div>
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<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>ParameterizedType</code></a></dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<div class="block">Create a parameterized type instance.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>raw</code> - the raw class to create a parameterized type instance for</dd><dd><code>typeArgMappings</code> - the mapping used for parameterization</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>ParameterizedType</code></a></dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<div class="block">Create a parameterized type instance.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>owner</code> - the owning type</dd><dd><code>raw</code> - the raw class to create a parameterized type instance for</dd><dd><code>typeArguments</code> - the types used for parameterization</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>ParameterizedType</code></a></dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<div class="block">Create a parameterized type instance.</div>
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<div class="block">Create a generic array type instance.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>componentType</code> - the type of the elements of the array. For example the component type of <code>boolean[]</code>
                      is <code>boolean</code></dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/GenericArrayType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><code>GenericArrayType</code></a></dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>t1</code> - the first type</dd><dd><code>t2</code> - the second type</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>boolean</dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>type</code> - the type to create a String representation for, not <code>null</code></dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>String</dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>String</dd><dt><span class="strong">Since:</span></dt>
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